Assistant coach satisfied Wallabies can win World Cup

Satisfied Australia has the expertise to win the Rugby World Cup, new forwards coach Neal Hatley has welcomed the Wallabies’ daunting journey to Pretoria as the right season starter.

Australia open their Rugby Championship marketing campaign towards South Africa at Loftus Versfeld on July 8 within the much-anticipated first recreation of Eddie Jones’ second tenure as Wallabies coach.

The Wallabies have misplaced their previous seven Exams in South Africa and have by no means conquered the Springboks on the excessive veldt since first dealing with them in Pretoria 60 years in the past.

However Hatley, the South African-born scrum guru hand-picked by Jones to affix his teaching group, is relishing the problem and believes win or lose the Springboks will present the Wallabies with an essential barometer on this all-important World Cup yr.

“It is an awesome take a look at,” he mentioned.

“The Springboks, after all, all the time have two units of front-rowers and are all the time able to roll on and off so it is just about as a lot within the deep finish as you may get for this primary Check.

“It is in all probability what we’d have wished, to go away to Loftus, which is an actual fortress for them. A recreation the place Australia have not gained earlier than and tackle the world champions.

“Yeah, it will give us an actual good bar mark of the place we’re, what we have to do and the place we have to hold enhancing. It is unbelievable.”

Hatley is adamant the Wallabies pack can take it to the perfect on this planet however consistency and mongrel is the important thing to offering the up-front platform to win the Webb Ellis Trophy.

“Eddie’s expectations are actually clear. He desires a fearsome Wallabies pack,” Hatley mentioned.

“He desires a pack that may scrum – and extra – with one of the best of them.

“We do not want any angels. We have to be attacking each set piece that we are able to.”

Hatley labored below Jones with England for 4 years main as much as the 2019 World Cup in Japan.

He is been aware about what provides the 63-year-old the Midas contact in the case of mastering match play.

In addition to guiding the Wallabies to the 2003 extra-time remaining loss to England in Sydney, Jones helped mastermind the Springboks’ 2007 World Cup triumph in France, plotted Japan’s historic victory over South Africa in 2015 and took England to the title match 4 years in the past.

“I’ve by no means labored with anybody who’s extra fastidious and analytical in his preparation and his planning,” Hatley mentioned.

“Within the earlier World Cup that I labored with him there, the, the planning going into it was simply subsequent degree.

“I need to work with individuals like that, anyone who pushes me every single day to get essentially the most different gamers every single day.”

Whereas there isn’t any doubting Jones’ teaching credentials, it is the depth of the enjoying squad that continues to be the large query mark round Australia’s capability to contend for World Cup glory.

However Hatley additionally believes the Wallabies have the cattle on that entrance too.

“I do know (Wallabies assault coach) Scott Wisemantel very well,” he mentioned.

“I labored with ‘Sensible’ so he was the primary bloke I phoned and I requested what he thought (after being approached by Jones).

“And he mentioned ‘100 per cent we are able to win the World Cup’. In any other case he would’t have been concerned.